Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> I know that Thunderbird and firefox are moving to sqlite for storage but 
> Im not sure in thunderbird's case whether emails will be stored in 
> sqlite or just the config/mork stuff.

Emails themselves are stored in mbox format.  The summary format is Mork 
(and sqlite in 2.0, IIUC).

Summary files that provide offsets into an mbox or individual references 
to maildir files seem like the sanest way to go to me.  (And this is 
what both Evolution and Thunderbird do.)  The real downside is that 
those summary files are considered private, and aren't designed with 
searchability in mind, which makes indexing the data inside very 
challenging.

Joe